Gingrich Condemns Conservative Leaders For Driving Moderate GOPer Out Of NY Race

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Gingrich Condemns Conservative Leaders For Driving Moderate GOPer Out Of NY Race


Sign of the times. Newt Gingrich, himself long considered a leader of the GOP’s conservative wing, is now condemning conservative leaders for driving moderate GOPer Dede Scozzafava out of the race for NY-23, warning that if national conservatives keep bigfooting local races the GOP will continue to wander the wilderness around the country:

“This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we’ll make Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee Obama’s re-election,” said Mr. Gingrich, who had endorsed Ms. Scozzafava…

“I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices.”

Gingrich had endorsed Scozzafava, so this was in some ways to be expected. But it’s interesting that someone once considered a spokesman for the fire-breathing right is now condemning conservative leaders for mounting ideological purges.

And right on cue, DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse sends over a statement using Scozzafava’s decision to drop from the race to elevate Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, who endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman, as the face of the harsh, uncompromising opposition:

What this says — emphatically — is that the true leaders of the Republican Party like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Tim Pawlenty have said to all moderates and independents — when it comes to being part of our party you need not apply. The only acceptable Republicans these days are those who subscribe to division, obstruction and a rigid far right wing ideology.

The NRCC and the House GOP leadership, meanwhile, put out a joint statement backing the conservative: “We look forward to welcoming Doug Hoffman into the House Republican Conference as we work together for the good of our nation.”

What's the dividing issue here? Or is it a matter of tone?

moderate republicans are republican due to fiscal isssues,
batshit crazy republicans are Palinites who hate any non-white person and want them all dead.

admittedly, there is a lot of crossover between the two groups, but moderate republicans are indeed embarrassed by the teabaggers.

however, if you'll notice, they never publicly complain about them, though, so I'm not sure if there is any effective difference when it comes to a public face.

cuckoo land.

justplainfuckingnutsville.

a galaxy far far away, to the right.

a black hole of wingnuttery.

Hee hee.
Tough shit Newton.

creator and consumes it.

:rofl:

Now he doesn't like the strings that came with his devil's deal 16 years ago. Some of us saw it at the time, but Professor Gingrich thought he was smart enough to avoid all the pitfalls. Burn in hell, Newt.

Let them keep chasing moderates out of their party - they'll marginalize themselves into a nothing more than a political sideshow.

Love the DNC statement - it's right on the money.

Without the Fundies there is no fire and without the moderates they loose the most Independents and the few moderates left.

What a shame! :evilgrin:

Obama won both those states..Is the extreme right wing message gaining ground?

May his pleas fall on permanently deaf ears.

:wtf:

I ran into a pro-environment book by him a while ago. Maybe he is having a change of heart?

the balance has just moved so far to the right that even he can't buy into it.

Reagan would be appalled by the right today, that's how bad it's gone. Ronald Reagan would be a "moderate" Republican today.

:popcorn:

Let Palin, Rush, Beck and all the rest have "their" part of America. Put all of them together somewhere. Alaska sounds good. I'm sick of them anyway. As a matter of fact I'm sick of all Republicans. At least two of my neighbors got their heads together. They switched to Democrats. Things got too ugly with too many lies from the Republicans. I guess the batshit crazies were a little much for them. However, I know as soon as I see them outside the next topic of discussion will be about Joe Lieberman.


:banghead: Time for me to :hide:

... your monster is running amok.

democratic party has far right, center right, center left, progressives, and the far left. We have a bigger tent. Obama is center left.

when Hatch says he won't support healthcare because people would vote for Democrats, that's Newt's line from the 1990s; when we hear uncompromising polarized language, it's from Newt's playbook in the 1990s ...